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Ebay identity theft
Jan. 10th, 2007 08:24 pmSo, someone broke into my ebay account and posted 30 auctions under my name. This happened while I was on the bus home, so didn't notice all the auction notices until an hour into them. I was able to cancel all but 3 of them, but those 3 were paid with Pay It Now, to a PayPal account presumably of the identity theft-er.
I contacted EBay, they've removed all the auctions and flagged them as invalid, and refunded to me most of the fees associated with posting them (which added up to over $100). Since the auctions were flagged as invalid, I don't think I can receive negative feedback for them. I don't know what's going to happen to the three folks who paid for those items, they'll probably have to pursue compensation via PayPal or ebay, unfortunately.
I've changed the passwords to all of my email accounts, PayPal, and ebay (of course), just in case. I hope this is all the bad that comes from this, but since I'm not exactly sure how they hacked my account - as far as I remember, I didn't visit any spoof sites, and SpyBot and virus scans both came up empty - I'm going to be worried for a while about more identity theft. Cleaned out all my cookies and cache, just to be safe.
I contacted EBay, they've removed all the auctions and flagged them as invalid, and refunded to me most of the fees associated with posting them (which added up to over $100). Since the auctions were flagged as invalid, I don't think I can receive negative feedback for them. I don't know what's going to happen to the three folks who paid for those items, they'll probably have to pursue compensation via PayPal or ebay, unfortunately.
I've changed the passwords to all of my email accounts, PayPal, and ebay (of course), just in case. I hope this is all the bad that comes from this, but since I'm not exactly sure how they hacked my account - as far as I remember, I didn't visit any spoof sites, and SpyBot and virus scans both came up empty - I'm going to be worried for a while about more identity theft. Cleaned out all my cookies and cache, just to be safe.
